Sentences with phrase «local election»

If the Lib Dems can retain around 40 seats (as suggested by the local election results) Clegg will once again be kingmaker.

There is currently a federal law against non-citizens voting in an election for a federal office (president / vice president, senator, or representative), but there is no federal law against non-citizens voting in any other state or local election.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

As the local election dust settles, candidates across the country are stowing away placards and...

But as we enter the local election season this summer, the Silver issue could have legs beyond the lawsuits and criticism from Albany Republicans.

Scottish local election results will give Nicola Strugeon's party the intelligence they need ahead of the general election.

There is no dividing line between local election leads before a victory and those that preceded defeat.

By implication the geography of local election voting must be doing a lot of work to dampen the scale of gains and losses for the Conservatives and Labour parties in the Rallings and Thrasher projection.

The saga of Eliot Spitzer hinges on a peculiarity of local election law.

In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool of voters they can appeal to in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.»

That would have undermined his party's local election message entirely.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

People often wonder what local election results bode for the next general election.

The move follows hugely embarrassing revelations about the publicly stated views of a host of Ukip European and local election candidates.

Can local election results tell us anything about General Election prospects?

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

Labour won its best local election results in London — and the Tories their worst results — since 1971.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Continue reading What do the polls tell us about local election results?

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

The local election results indicate more than ever that the antisemitism scandals under Corbyn are forcing Jews away from the Labour Party.

We're tracking the school results as your local election headquarters.

The Women's Equality party is only three years old and yet in this, our first local election, around a quarter of voters in our target areas gave one of their three votes to us.

The local election results were great.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

Meanwhile, for the Liberal Democrats, their changing opinion poll performance relative to the Conservatives, but not Labour, has historically been correlated with headline local election seat changes.

Continue reading Unraveling the 2014 local election changes in the share of the vote: who suffered most from UKIP?

Two countries have synchronised their EU election and local election dates this cycle: Greece and parts of the UK (England and Northern Ireland).

And today's underwhelming local election results provide plenty of evidence that he can not challenge the Tories.

Before then, of course, comes the difficult local election round in which it's likely the Conservatives will be badly beaten in London.

These figures suggest that local election can give us a general idea of how well a party will do at the next election, but one that is only a rough estimate at best.

Whisper it, but some in Labour's ranks observed their party's local election performance and were a little underwhelmed.

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

Making any contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or making any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any federal, state or local election in the United States;

Alongside that, I hope you enjoy the 2010 general and local election look - back on p20.

Read David Cameron's speech kicking off the Conservatie local election campaign - unedited and in full.

«NYS Commissioner of Labor Peter Rivera has taken no official or unofficial position in the 76th district primary election or any other local election.

Ed Miliband's party is continuing to make solid gains across England, as local election results continue to hammer the coalition's Conservative and Liberal Democrats.

As in past years, the top vote - getters from the town meeting will be expected to win the local election in April.

The deadline for filing petitions with local election officials is Jan. 23.

A volunteer who addresses and stuffs envelopes for a local election can make the difference between light and darkness in one community.

Tell him to waddle his fat as's down to his local election comissioner's office, pay whatever fee is required, and put his name on a ballot.

Notwithstanding desiring the autonomy for municipalities to set the other campaign finance and disclosure rules, Edmonton calls for amendments to the Local Authorities Elections Act to eliminate corporate and union donations for all local election candidates.

This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place.

Warner asked Kelly «to work closely with state and local election officials to disclose publicly which states were targeted, to ensure that they are fully aware of the threat, and to make certain that their cyber defenses are able to neutralize this danger.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

In the end, the diner owner lost the local election to his Democrat opponent.

Last year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vote.

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

In an interview with the El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, the Spanish leader suggested he could trigger article 155 of the constitution, which would allow him to dismiss the regional government and call fresh local elections.